Washing-machine



H. H. TORREY. CLOTHES WASHING MACHINE.

No. 15,353. Patented July 1-5, 1856.

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H. H. TORREY, OF BUFFALO GROVE, ILLINOIS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,358, dated July 15, 1856.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, H. H. TORREY, of Buffalo Grove, in the county ofOgle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and ImprovedClothes-Washing Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the-same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichFigure 1, is a vertical section of my improvement, the plane of sectionbeing through the center. Fig. 2, is a plan or top View of the same, thecarrying disk being removed. Fig. 3, is an under view, or, an invertedplan of the carrying disk.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

My invention consists in securing at the center of a tub or case similarto an ordinary wash tub, a vertical arbor or shaft, having a framefitted upon it, to the lower end of which frame a circular disk isattached, said disk having pins or pegs in its under surface as will bepresently described, by which the clothes are turned and carried backand forth over stationary rubbers secured to the bottom of the tub orcase and thoroughly washed.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a tub or case constructed similar to an ordinary wash-tub,and having a vertical arbor or shaft B secured in any proper manner tothe center of its bottom On the bottom (a) of the tub, there are securedradial rubbers (1)), six are represented in Fig. 2, but more or. lessmay be used. These rubbers are merely strips of wood fluted on theirupper surface as shown in Fig. 2.

C is a frame formed of two vertical bars (0) (0) which are connected bya horizontal handle D at their upper ends. The

I upper end of the arbor or shaft has a rod (d) secured in it, which rodpasses through the center of the handle D, the center of the handleresting upon the upper end of the arbor or shaft. The lower ends of thebars (a) (c) are attached to a circular disk E the under surface ofwhich has pins or pegs (ci) secured in it, which pins project a suitabledistance below the disk. Any proper number of pins or pegs may beemployed.

The arbor or shaft B passes through the center of the disk E which restsupon a shoulder (e) at the lower end of the arbor or shaft as clearlyshown in Fig. 1.

The clothes to be washed are placed in the tub or case A the frame anddisk being previously removed and a requisite quantity of suds is placedin the tub. The frame C is then placed upon the arbor or shaft B, thedisk E resting upon the clothes. The disk E is then turned by hand witha rotating reciprocating motion and the pins or pegs (cl) carry theclothes back and forth through the suds and over the rubbers (b) whicheffectually cleanse the dirt therefrom; the pins or pegs turning theclothes each time the movement of the disk is reversed. The disk is notpressed upon the clothes but merely rests upon them with a pressure dueto its own weight.-

The above improvement is extremely simple and may be manufactured at asmall cost. It will not injure the clothes by tearing them nor wrenchthe buttons therefrom.

I am aware that a disk placed within a tub has been previously used forwashing clothes, but, in consequence of rubbers or corrugated surfacesbeing placed both on the bottom of the tub and under surface of thedisk, the clothes were torn and otherwise injured during the operation.

I do not claim, therefore, the tub A and disk E, separately or inthemselves considered, but I claim The rotating reciprocating disk Eplaced within the tub A and upon an arbor or shaft B, when said disk isprovided with pins or pegs (d) on its under surface and the bottom ofthe tub with radial rubbers (79),

HENRY BUCK, OYnUs D. TORREY.

